Yesterday’s announcement comes just a month after administrators said they were moving the center to another part of campus as part of some changes to improve its performance. A task force had recommended a number of reforms to boost its comparatively low graduation rates.

The Advocate student paper wrote that students were stunned when they heard the news, because officials had just said they would reform the center — not close it.

Corrick Center student Patrick Richard said:

“We were lied to. They said they weren’t gonna shut it down, that they were gonna revise it, and now they shut it down.”

Denise Gorsline, dean of the university college said in the Forum that new information popped up after that, and officials were compelled to change their minds.

About the blogger

Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.